LANCASHIRE LASS BROGAN WINS THE LEVER

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Lancashire’s Brogan Townend made a quick start to the 2011 season with a five-shot win in the first big scratch event of the year, The Leveret at Formby Ladies.

The 16-year-old from Pleasington set the pace in the first round and moved away from the field in the afternoon, returning a six-under par score for the day with a pair of 68s.

Brogan had a bogey-free round in the morning and in the afternoon dropped just two shots over the front nine. Altogether she had eight birdies in the 36 holes.

Her closest challenger on a cold, blustery day was Rachael Goodall of Cheshire, who in turn was a shot ahead of Gloucestershire’s Shelby Smart and Yorkshire’s Emma Brown.

Brogan, who trains with EWGA’s U18 squad, won another top scratch event last year when she was successful in the Pleasington Putter. She was the 2009 Faldo Series U16 champion and last season was the Lancashire girls’ champion and the Northern girls’ U16 titleholder.

Leading scores

Par 71 CSS 72 73

136 Brogan Townend (Pleasington) 68 68
141 Rachael Goodall (Heswall) 71 70
142 Shelby Smart (Knowle) 73 69; Emma Brown (Malton & Norton) 73 69
143 Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham & St Annes) 72 71; Olivia Winning (Rotherham) 69 74
145 Lucy Williams (Mid-Herts) 71 74, Hannah Barwood (Knowle) 71 74
146 Emma Sheffield (Newark) 76 70; Lauren Taylor (Woburn) 74 72; Bronte Law (Bramhall) 72 74; Elizabeth Mallett (Sutton Coldfield Ladies’) 71 75
147 Hayley Davis (Ferndown) 75 72; Lucy Gould (Bargoed) 74 73; Rachel Drummond (Beaconsfield) 73 74


SCOTS' SCORES
159 Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) 83 76.
161 Lesley Atkins (Gullane Ladies) 80 81.







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